The Dominican government has agreed with AstraZeneca pharmaceutical for the company to supply medicines instead of the contracted Covid-19 vaccines. The DR ordered thousands of vaccines, but AstraZeneca did not deliver on time. When the vaccines were delivered, the DR already had sourced these from China.
Under the original contract, the Dominican Republic received a total of 879,600 doses of the vaccine, which were used as part of the National Vaccination Plan against COVID-19.
However, following the evolution of the pandemic and based on the supply flow of the vaccine, the parties agreed that it was no longer convenient to receive all of the 10 million doses originally contracted, which called for disbursing US$40 million.
Consequently, through a first letter of understanding in July 2021, the parties agreed to reduce the total contracted amount to 5,811,138 doses.
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